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> most people have expressed to me that it was rude for there to be protestors at the coronation... Yes, it was. > But that's the point of protest!! No, it i
by pif 3y ago
> most people have expressed to me that it was rude for there to be protestors at the coronation...
Yes, it was.
> But that's the point of protest!!
No, it is not.
From Cambridge Dictionary: "protest": a strong complaint expressing disagreement, disapproval, or opposition.
You can express your dissenting opinions without being rude. And, by the way, the monarchy has been in UK for centuries, and it is still there: if you don't like it, you have any day available to protest. No need to pick that particular day when you can be most disruptive.
- jackmott42 3y ago[flagged]
- pif 3y ago[flagged]
- frob 3y agoWow, that's quite the leap. Peacefully attending a public gathering in yellow shirts with printed slogans is nowhere near the violent insurrection perpetrated on Jan 6, 2021. You are approaching "Hitler was a vegan" territory.
- pif 3y agoNot at all! "Peacefully attending a public gathering in yellow shirts with printed slogans" is my perfect definition of a protest. You take a message with you, I can read it and decide whether I'm interested in joining your protest or just go on with my life. My comment's parent called me authoritarian because I said that printing the message on my car would not be acceptable.
- account42 3y agoAny protest is infinitely less rude than expecting others to give you special treatment because your ancestors were bigger dicks than others.
- pif 3y agoNobody is condemning the rudeness against the royal family, but against all the people who like to give special treatment to the royal family for whatever reason, and especially to all the people who just want to keep giving special treatment to the royal family because it has been so since their grandparents were born.
- wootland 3y agoThose people are complicit with all of the human rights abuses perpetrated by the royal family. Without them, the monarchy could be abolished. They are the very source of the problem.
- data_maan 3y agoThe whole point of any protest is to be seen...
- pif 3y agoSure it is, but you cannot pretend it. Why should your right to be seen be more important than the right of the government to organize a nice party for an event that will be in history books? You have the right to protest, but the others must retain the right to ignore you. You talking in the centre of the public square, in the middle of the market, is ok; you screaming in my ear is not.
- frob 3y agoThe right to ignore someone else is not the right to have police arrest and remove them without charges because you don't like the opinion they're expressing. That's fascism.
- pif 3y agoI agree with you, apart from the "fascism". Unless you want to call right-leaning and left-leaning dictatorships both "fascist".
- krisoft 3y ago> if you don't like it, you have any day available to protest. There are people thinking that we should not spend our public money on the monarchy. This viewpoint is absolutely topical on the very day when a large chunk of money is being spent on celebrating something they don't want to celebrate. If you think that is rude, bad for you. Sometimes people will be rude to you and you have to take it.
- pif 3y ago> There are people thinking that we should not spend our public money on the monarchy. They may be right, they may be wrong. They surely have the right to express their opinions. But the fundamental question is: who cares? Or, actually: how many people care? If enough people cared, that would be on the agenda of a major political party. If it isn't, they have to suck it up.
- krisoft 3y ago> But the fundamental question is: who cares? Or, actually: how many people care? I don't know. But I care about their right to shout their slogans and wave their placards more than I care about the existence or non-existence of the monarchy.
- pif 3y ago> I care about their right to shout their slogans and wave their placards more than I care about the existence or non-existence of the monarchy. I do, too. I would have sympathised more with them in any other day, though. Actually, I personally could not care less about coronation, so every protest going on that day just slipped over me :-)
- jasonm23 3y agoYet here you are, discussing it online. If you didn't care, why would you even be in this thread?
- bombolo 3y ago
- jasonm23 3y ago> No need to pick that particular day when you can be most disruptive. ... Yes pick a day when no one will notice. sips tea with pinky out